University names five law firms to £2m legal services panel

The University of Lincoln has appointed five law firms to a legal services panel providing support worth an estimated £2m over five years.

Each provider is required to cover four core deliverable areas:

• general and commercial
• property
• employment and people
• student focus.

The successful firms were:

• Birketts
• Pinsent Masons
• Penningtons Manches Cooper
• Shakespeare Martineau
• VWV

The panel is for the sole use of the University of Lincoln and will run for an initial period of three years from 1 June 2021 to 31 May 2024. There will be an option for the university to extend the contract by a period of two years in yearly increments taking the maximum contract end date to 31 May 2026.